The concept here is one we frequently hear from grocery store clerks, landscape architects, right-wing news anchors, and others whose lack of scientific training render them completely incapable of “questioning the science.”
Btw, doesn’t Charles Schulz have any living descendants? If I were one of them, I would object to the misuse of my great ancestor’s work to promote stupidity.
What value does the sign add?
What value does the sidewalk itself add?
All around us are indications that the things we think are important couldn’t possibly be less relevant to the one precious life we have and to how it turns out.
A clue to this is that idiotic news stories change from month to month.
How relevant will Critical Race Theory and Disney’s support of the LGBTQ movement be by summertime?
Watch out. Sidewalk ends. Don’t waste your life in the process.
It’s easy to hate the values of the present-day Republican party. Today’s Democratic party, though its morals are higher, is also hard to admire, if only for its amazing ineptitude at political messaging.
Review the list of what Democrats have accomplished on behalf of the common American, and then ask yourself: How on Earth is it possible that the U.S. working class has started to vote for Trump and his disgusting bunch of thugs/colleagues?
The meat industry says “It’s what’s for dinner”; it doesn’t market its product as “bloody, murdered cows.” McDonald’s customer are told that they “are loving it,” not that they’re “pre-diabetic.”
The Democratic party is certainly not for everyone; I understand that they are never going to appeal to the white nationalists and the greedy billionaires. But it’s losing autoworkers? Women? Parents who want good educations and clean air for their kids?
How hard can this be?
They’re underpaid. Their efforts to discipline unruly students is thwarted at every turn. They bring in their own supplies, and spend countless unpaid hours on lesson planning.
It may have appeared that our society had done everything conceivable to remove teachers’ incentives and self-respect. But no. (more…)
Re: the photo here, a reader notes: There are 33.7 KWh in a gallon of gas. At those prices, you would have to spend $5.38 on the electric to get the equivalent ‘umph’ as the gas.
What he fails to understand, of course, is that internal combustion engines are about 20% efficient, as opposed to the charging and discharging of batteries, which is about 80% efficient.
Also, the processes by which gasoline is made are themselves horrifically inefficient. Imagine extracting tar sands in Alberta, sending it to Houston, refining it, and distributing it to the nation’s gas stations.
I’m with you, pal.
I used to attend the large tech conferences in Orlando. I wonder how many event organizers today are thinking: Ya know what? People of intelligence and compassion resent the living hell out of this state. Let’s think elsewhere.
I’m reminded of a woman I met shortly after Trump arrived on the U.S. political scene. She told me that she was scheduled to attend an event at the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, and she told her people, “I will not step foot in that building for any reason whatsoever.”
This reverence for semi-automatic machine guns is most certainly among America’s current cultural phenomena that mystifies Europe (and the rest of the world), but it’s hardly the only one. (more…)
Like most people in their twenties, my kids occasionally use vulgar language.
A couple of points:
They do it sparingly,
They don’t do it in front of inappropriate company, and
They didn’t learn it from me when they were in seven or eight years old.
Simply disgusting.
A reader reacts to Alex Jones’ Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing and notes: One less (sic) bat****crazy person in the media. It would be nice to see Fox News next.
I share your joy here, but I caution you not to expect Jones to disappear from the media spotlight, if only because Chapter 11 calls for reorganization, not liquidation. We hope the judge makes it impossible for Jones to protect his vast personal wealth, but no one knows how this is going to proceed.
And yes, it would be terrific to see Fox News sued into oblivion for the incredible damage done by their never-ending stream of lies. So far, their defense, i.e., that no reasonable person believes this s***, has held up in court every time it’s been used.
Even if Donald Trump doesn’t go to prison, it will remain an interesting bet as to how many of his so-called “friends” actually will. Obviously, there are the household name felons like Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Steven Bannon and the rest, but forget about them for a moment.
This coming September, uber-wealthy private equity investor Tom Barrack will go on trial for his blatantly illegal lobbying of his close buddy for the benefit of the UAE.
At the decree of a federal judge: Tom Barrack will go on trial with a (27-year-old) business associate in September on charges of illegally lobbying former President Donald Trump, his close friend, on behalf of the United Arab Emirates. The trial of Barrack and his associate Matthew Grimes will take place in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, N.Y.
If you or I had done this, we’d need a good lawyer to get off with five years in prison. Barrack will whine like a baby if he gets a few hours of community service.
An interesting question: how hard do you come down on Grimes? It’s reminiscent of the American movie classic “Wall Street,” where an impressionable and ambitious young person, Bud Foxx, breaks multiple laws after being introduced to a filthy rich white collar criminal, Gordon Gecko, who is no more culpable than Barrack. The film left his sentence unclear, other than what he told his agonized father, “I’m going to prison.”
I won’t moralize on the matter, other than to say that it’s shame we live in such times. It’s not easy to raise kids in a day of such conspicuous consumption where most of the crimes of the Matthew Grimes of the world go undetected and they become multimillionaires, to the envy of our kids.
